With the ongoing destruction of traditional media’s business model, it occurred to me the internet is to the media what a black hole is to a galaxy.
Princeton Wordnet’s definition of black hole:
(n) black hole (a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star; extremely high gravitational field)
In media’s case; eventually few if any advertising dollars will have been able to escape the pull of the internet’s “extremely high gravitational field.”
What two forces gave birth to the extremely high gravitational field now sucking the life out of traditional media’s business model?
Attention and Economics.
Before a seller can ever make a sale, they first have to get the buyers attention.
Traditional media has long since lost its monopoly of consumer’s attention and along with it the dollars advertisers spent to get buyers attention.
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